Apr
12
2010
This is video of my neighborhood. I was walking with my son to go to the local park. Is this inline with your imagination of a Japanese neighborhood?
Mar
28
2010
It’s March 28th and I woke up to frozen water pipes. I really need to find a new place to live. Here’s what is so funny. Japan is a very small island. The whole area of Japan is smaller than the state is Texas (which is pretty big) but the temperatures range from freezing to areas where people are going to the beach in swimsuits such as Okinawa. There’s as many weather conditions here as there are are dialects.
Mar
27
2010
It’s -5 degrees Celsius today. Be prepared for the earth to explode from global warming.
Mar
17
2010
I recently watched several videos. But, one movie I saw was crazy heart and it really resonated with me. Jeffry Bridges is great and the main theme song is even better.
Mar
1
2010
I woke a bit early this morning and was sitting at my computer doing some programming stuff when I began to feel my house moving.
It only lasted for 3 to 4 seconds and was probably only a 2 to 3 on the Rector (at least for my specific location) but after the Tsunami threats yesterday, I couldn’t help but feel a wee bit anxious.
Feb
27
2010
A couple of weeks ago, I scanned in well over a hundred photos that I`ve had in picture albums for many years. Many were my baby pictures and pictures of family even before I was born.
…then…
In the process of installing Windows 7, I had to backup my scanned images folder. To do that, I copied them to my USB memory device. What a mistake.
…. well,
The pics copied fine, but my USB device has an extreme quirk. If I forget to select `remove device` from my software and go straight to yanking my usb memory stick out of the usb port, then I suffer a huge risk of losing all of my data. Arrgggghhhhh !!! and that is exactly what happened.
So, lesson learned. I should have made a CD or DVD backup as I had previously considered.
Result: I now have to sit down and rescan all of those images and I wasn`t even half way through.
Oh, well!
Feb
24
2010
I *finally* got Windows 7 Ultimate. I chose the Ultimate version because I live in Japan, but need to use English and only the Ultimate and higher versions support multiple languages. I did *not* like the way Microsoft implemented the language support. I had to first install the OS in Japanese, then squirm my way through the different windows and dialogs to figure out how to install English. Apple handles this problem much more smoothly when installing OS X.
Anyway, After installing Windows 7 Ultimate, I discovered that my wireless device didn`t work. Soooo, I had to reinstall my old Windows XP version, download a driver for my wireless device and then *again* reinstall windows 7. Uggghhhh.
Anyway, I am now up and running with Windows 7. The positives are it`s a 64 bit OS and I have more native support for writing in Japanese.
I will learn more about the OS from here on out. But, from the looks of things, quite a bit of changes have taken place since XP. I never used Vista, so I`m a bit behind.
Feb
18
2010
I came across these pics and decided to get them scanned in.
Anyway, here they are.
Winning the beer drinking contest at Shakeys
Eating at Shakeys Pizza - 1989
My Friend's Wedding
Dont' let the Rock Fall ! -- Kyle and Troy
Getting Ready for Inspection
Hanging out in the PX